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SICILY AND MALTA. 297
« etiam doctissima sui civis unius acutissimi
" monumentum ignorasset, nisi ab homine
(C Arpinate didicisset, Sac."
The Catacombs are a great work; little
inferior either to those of Rome or Naples,
and in the same stile. There are many-
remains of temples. The Duke of Mont-
albano, who has written on the antiquities
of Syracuse, reckons near twenty; but
there is hardly any of these that are now
distinguimable. A few fine columns of
that of Jupiter Olympus still remain ; and
the temple of Minerva (now converted into
the cathedral of the city, and dedicated to
the Virgin) is almost entire. They have
lately built a new facade to it; but I am
afraid they have not improved on the sim-
plicityof the antique. It is full of broken
pediments, and I think in a bad stile.
Ortigia, the only remaining part of Sy-
racuse, was anciently an issand ; it is often
denominated
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« etiam doctissima sui civis unius acutissimi
" monumentum ignorasset, nisi ab homine
(C Arpinate didicisset, Sac."
The Catacombs are a great work; little
inferior either to those of Rome or Naples,
and in the same stile. There are many-
remains of temples. The Duke of Mont-
albano, who has written on the antiquities
of Syracuse, reckons near twenty; but
there is hardly any of these that are now
distinguimable. A few fine columns of
that of Jupiter Olympus still remain ; and
the temple of Minerva (now converted into
the cathedral of the city, and dedicated to
the Virgin) is almost entire. They have
lately built a new facade to it; but I am
afraid they have not improved on the sim-
plicityof the antique. It is full of broken
pediments, and I think in a bad stile.
Ortigia, the only remaining part of Sy-
racuse, was anciently an issand ; it is often
denominated
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